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Štefan Cvajg – Erazmo Roterdamski
Kao u priči pitko izlaže Cvajg istorijske i biografske okolnosti koje su uticale na formiranje Erazma kao osobe čija je životna težnja bila harmonična sinteza suprotnosti u ljudskom duhu, osobe koja ne odobrava drastične mere. Rat mu se činio nespojivim sa moralno mislećim čovečanstvom. Samo je jednu stvar na zemlji kao suprotnost razumu istinski mrzeo: fanatizam. Samostalnost u mišljenju smatrao je nečim što se samo po sebi razume. Ne boraveći stalno ni u jednoj zemlji i kao kod kuće u svima njima, prvi svesni kosmopolit i Evropejac, nije priznavao nadmoćnost jedne nacije nad drugom, i pošto je narode cenio jedino po njihovim najplemenitijim i najobrazovanijim duhovima, po njihovoj eliti, svi su mu izgledali dostojni ljubavi. Erazmo i njegove pristalice smatrali su napredak čovečanstva putem prosvećenosti mogućim i željno su iščekivali mogućnost da se pojedinac, kao i celo društvo, vaspita širenjem obrazovanosti.
ŠTEFAN CVAJG – BALZAK
Ako biste nekom istoričaru književnosti, pasioniranom čitaocu ili prosto frankofilu postavili pitanje koji je pisac bio najslikovitija, najgrotesknija i istovremeno po mnogo čemu najtragičnija ličnost u Francuskoj XIX veka – dobili biste isti odgovor: Onore de Balzak. Napisati dobru biografiju takve osobe – nekonvencionalnu, punu kontradiktornosti – nije lak zadatak, ali Štefan Cvajg je to izveo vrhunski. Napisao je veličanstvenu biografiju briljantnog stvaraoca. Opisao je život čoveka koji živi u svetu sopstvene neobuzdane mašte, prenoseći svoje snove, planove i ljubavi u stvarnost. Ali kako to biva u životu, stvarni svet ne ispunjava naše fantazije. Balzak je bio stvarniji u svetu svojih romana nego u svakodnevnom životu. Večiti gubitnik, siromašan biznismen i nesrećno zaljubljen u žene koje su ga tretirale kao budalu. U ovoj biografiji Balzak je živ, stvaran u svakom detalju, a njegova sudbina budi brojne emocije: od sažaljenja i simpatije prema tužnom detinjstvu, preko podsmeha njegovom snobizmu, „aristokratomaniji“ i čudnim ljubavnim avanturama, neverice da je tako nisko pao, besa što nije uspeo da izađe iz začaranog kruga dugova i zavisnosti, do divljenja za titanski rad kom se svim srcem posvetio.
Štefan Cvajg je stvorio delo koje dira srce i omogućava vam da doživite uspone i padove majstora književnosti. Na Balzakovoj biografiji radio je deset godina, smatrajući je „magnum opusom” svojih književnih ostvarenja. Ne sasvim završen rukopis – čudom preživeo ratna bombardovanja – objavljen je nakon autorove smrti, zahvaljujući naporima njegovog prijatelja Riharda Fridentala. Knjiga Štefana Cvajga je velika pohvala stvaralačkoj moći i spisateljskom talentu, divna panorama epohe, a pre svega fascinantna priča o neotesanom francuskom skorojeviću koji je ušao u istoriju kao jedan od najvećih književnih stvaralaca. Nakon čitanja poželećete da obnovite svoje znanje o Balzakovim romanima.
ŠTEFAN CVAJG – MARIJA STJUART
Na srednjovekovnoj pozornici intriga, dvoličnosti pa i krvavih ubistava Štefan Cvajg u ovom maestralnom biografskom romanu opisuje psihološke portrete dveju snažnih žena. Jedna od njih, škotska kraljica Marija Stjuart, rastrzana između strasti i ništa manje strastvene borbe za svoju veru, stoji nasuprot engleske kraljice, dvolične i proračunate Elizabete I. Svoj fascinantni životni put, strastvena i lepa Marija Stjuart okončava najpre u skoro dvodecenijskom zatočeništvu engleske kraljice i na kraju smrću odsecanjem glave, ni u jednom momentu ne pomislivši da se odrekne sopstvene vere.
„Moral i politika idu zasebnim putevima. Stoga se jedan događaj prosuđuje sa potpuno različitih stanovišta, već prema tome da li se ocenjuje sa stanovišta čovečnosti, ili pak sa stanovišta političke koristi. Moralno, pogubljenje Marije Stjuart ostaje kao potpuno neoprostiv čin: protiv svakog međunarodnog prava zadržali su u zatočenju usred mira kraljicu susedne zemlje, ispotaje spleli zamku i na najperfidniji način je njoj poturili. Ali, isto tako, ne može se osporiti da je, gledano sa državno-političkog stanovništva, odstranjenje Marije Stjuart za Englesku bila ispravna mera. Jer u politici ne odlučuje – nažalost! – pravo u jednoj meri, nego njen uspeh… Istorija često ide mračnim i krivudavim stazama, ali se na kraju uvek ispunjava istorijski smisao, uvek nužnosti konačno izvojuju svoje pravo“, objašnjava Cvajg pred kraj svoje pripovesti o tragičnoj sudbini kraljice Škotske.
Stepa – Anton Pavlovič Čehov
Stepa, koju je Čehov napisao 1887. godine, neposredno pre čuvenog pozorišnog komada „Ivanov“, izdvaja se u njegovom opusu kao duža novela o putovanju jednog dečaka kroz stepu. taj simbol beskraja Rusije. U ovom delu ima mnogo autobiografskog. Stepa za
uzima posebno mesto u očaravajućim romanima o inicijaciji u svetskoj književnosti (kao što su, na primer, Puškinova „Kapetanova kći“, „Prva ljubav“ Turgenjeva, Konradova „Mladost“, „Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću“ Miloša Crnjanskog, Floberov „Novembar“, „Avanture pod pločnikom“ Dilana Tomasa, Selindžerov „Lovac u žitu“, Fanteov „Put za Los Anđeles“, Bolanjovi „Divlji detektivi“, Pelevinov „Omon Ra“, „Zona“ Sergeja Dovlatova, Hamsunova „Glad“. . . Često su to prvi romani jednog pisca, a ponekad ostaju jedino njegovo delo.
Stepa je leksikon poetike A. P. Čehova, knjiga koju mogu da čitaju sve generacije, i kojoj uvek mogu da se vrate.
„Putuješ sat, dva. . . Na putu te susreće ćutljivi starachum ili kamena žena, koju je postavio bogzna ko i kada, bez šuma preleti nad zemljom noćna ptica, i ti se, malo-pomalo, prisećaš stepskih legendi, priča namernika, bajki dadilja, i svega onog što si i sam video i dušom osetio. I tada, u cvrčanju insekata, u sablasnim obličjima i humovima, u tamnoplavom nebu, u mesečevoj svetlosti, u lepršanju noćne ptice, u svemu što vidiš i čuješ, počinješ da slutiš veličanstvo lepote, mladost, procvat svih moći i strasnu žeđ za životom; duša se odaziva prekrasnom, divljem zavičaju, i poželiš da zajedno s noćnom pticom poletiš nad stepom. U veličanstvenom zanosu lepote, u višku sreće, osećaš neku napregnutost i tugu, kao da stepa uviđa da je usamljena, da su njeno bogatstvo i duša za svet izgubljeni, da ih niko nije opevao, da nikome nisu potrebni, i kroz radosnu graju čuješ kako tužno, očajnički doziva: pesnika! pesnika!. . .“
STEPH CAMPBELL – DELICATE
With a thriving gymnastics career, Trevor her loving boyfriend and a stellar academic record, anyone would assume that Sydney Pierce has it all. But beneath the pretence of perfection, Sydney's life is crumbling around her and she's terrified that everyone will find out that she's living a lie and is desperate to try and keep the world from discovering the truth.
Then the gorgeous and charming new boy, Grant, starts paying her attention, and Sydney's carefully crafted life is thrown into chaos and confusion; why is he the only one who seems to be able to break down her barriers and care for her becauseof her imperfections? Sydney knows she should stay away from Grant, but she can't deny the attraction between them, and, as their connection grows deeper, Trevor's jealousy takes an intense and dark turn, forcing Sydney into a position in which not only her happiness, but her safety is at stake.
Can Sydney learn to let go of everything she is clinging to in order to gain everything she has ever wanted or will she realize her breaking point too late?
STEPHEN BAKER – THEY’VE GOT YOUR NUMBER…
STEPHEN BAXTER – STONE SPRING
8,000 years ago Europe was a very different place. England was linked to Holland by a massive swathe of land. Where the North Sea is now lay the landmass of Northland. And then came a period of global warming, a shifting of continents and, over a few short years, the sea rushed in and our history was set. But what if the sea had been kept at bay? Brythony is a young girl who lives in Northland. Like all her people she is a hunter gatherer, her simple tools fashioned from flint cutting edges lodged in wood and animal bone. When the sea first encroaches on her land her people simply move. Brythony moves further travelling to Asia. Where she sees mankind's first walled cities. And gets an idea. What if you could build a wall to keep the sea out? And so begins a colossal engineering project that will take decades, a wall that stretches for hundreds of miles, a wall that becomes an act of defiance, and containing the bones of the dead, an act of devotion. A wall that will change the geography of the world. And it's history. Stephen Baxter has become expert at embedding human stories into the grandest sweeps of history and the most mind-blowing of concepts. STONE SPRING begins a trilogy that will tell the story of a changed world. It begins in 8,000 BC with an idea and ends in 1500 in a world that never saw the Roman Empire, Christianity or Islam. It is an eye-opening look at what history could so easily have been and an inspiring tale of how we control our future.
STEPHEN CRANE – THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The intensity of its narrative and its naturalistic power earned Crane instant success, and led to his spending most of his brief remaining life war reporting. The other stories collected in this volume draw on this experience; `The Open Boat' (1898) was inspired by his fifty hour struggle with waves after his ship was sunk during an expedition to Cuba; `The Monster' (1899) is a bitterly ironic commentary on the ostracization of a doctor for harbouring the servant who was disfigured and lost his sanity rescuing his son. As a rare example of Crane working in a vein of American Gothic, it is particularly striking for its treatment of race and social injustice. `The Blue Hotel' traces the events that lead to a murder at a bar in a small Nebraska town.
This edition is the most generously annotated edition of Crane's work, exploring it from a fresh critical perspective and focusing on his place as an experimental writer, his modernist legacy and his social as well as literary revisionism.
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STEPHEN FREY – HEAVEN’S FURY
New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey thrills readers with the mesmerizing tale of a small-town sheriff who must confront the worst violence that man and nature possess.
Bruner, Wisconsin, is really two different towns. On one side are the magnificent summer estates of wealthy families who value their privacy and privilege above all else. A few miles away, but a world apart, are the homes of the working men and women who cook, clean, and tend to the needs of the summer visitors. It’s a place of staggering natural beauty, but where death can come unexpectedly and with no regard for a person’s bank account or family tree. A place of steadfast loyalties and friendships, but where the long and brutal winter can make even the most intimate friends turn on each other with frightening intensity.
This is the place where Sheriff Paul Summers finds himself grasping for answers when the wild, unpredictable woman who captured his heart years ago is discovered brutally and spectacularly murdered inside her family’s snowbound estate. As the last person to see her alive, and given his complicated history with the victim, Paul is not only lead investigator on the case but, in the eyes of many in Bruner, the prime suspect in her killing. Battling rumors of an evil cult’s being formed just outside of town, the disappearance of another citizen, and a wife whose grasp of reality is quickly slipping away, Paul must race to find the true guilty party before a massive winter storm leaves them all cut off from the outside world and at the mercy of a remorseless killer.
As the approaching storm gathers in intensity, so do the twists and turns that bring Paul ever closer to unraveling the big secrets that haunt this small town. In a stunning conclusion, Paul witnesses firsthand the startling power and beauty of heaven’s fury.
STEPHEN HUNTER – BLACK LIGHT
Only one thing stands between a son and his father's killer: forty years of lies. . .
On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child. His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out. And his grief will lead him back to the place where he was born, where his father died, and where a brutal conspiracy is about to explode.
For Bob Lee Swagger, the world changed on that hot day in Blue Eye, Arkansas, when two local boys rode armed and wild in a '55 Fairlane convertible. Swagger's father, Earl, a state trooper, was investigating the brutal murder of a young woman that day. By midnight Earl Swagger lay dead in a deserted cornfield.
Now Bob Lee wants answers. He wants to know the truth behind the shoot -out that took his father's life, a mystery buried in forty years of lies. Because for Bob Lee Swagger, the killing didn't end that day in Blue Eye, Arkansas. The killing had just begun . . .
Weaving together characters from his national bestsellers Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, Stephen Hunter's gripping thriller builds to an exhilarating climax—and an explosion of gunfire that blasts open the secrets of two generations.
Praise for Black Light
“Put on your seat belt—Black Light is a wild ride you won't forget.”—The Chicago Tribune
“Nobody writes action better than Stephen Hunter and Black Light is one of his best. . . [The] action scenes play like a movie, the plot is intriguing and the writing is top-notch.”—Phillip Margolin
“Only a handful of writers today can match Hunter for imagination and the ability to make a reader's adrenaline rush.”—New York Daily News
“Filled with detail, clever plotting, suspense, and a hunt to the death that leaves the reader dry-mouthed with tension. Hunter knows his guns, and he writes about them with a precision that holds the attention of even a fervent anti-gun supporter.”—The Orlando Sentinel
“One of the most skilled hands in the thriller business. The plot is fast-paced, well-constructed and builds to a pulse-pounding night ambush. . . . It should seal his reputation as an author who not only can write bestselling thrillers, but write them exceedingly well.”—Publishers Weekly
STEPHEN HUNTER – PALE HORSE COMING
Pale Horse Coming, featuring Stephen Hunter’s beloved sniper heroes Earl and Bob Lee Swagger, the first Swagger thriller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
The time is 1951. A smooth-talking Chicago lawyer comes to chat with Sam Vincent, the former prosecutor of Polk County, Arkansas, about a dangerous subject—a big prison for violent black convicts near Thebes, Mississippi, up the Yaxahatchee River from Pasagoula. Thebes seems to have dropped out of the Union—letters and phone calls go unanswered, and the lawyer has questions that need answers. Would Sam—an ex-lawman, a white man and a Southerner—agree to go up there and find out what he can?
The ex-prosecutor takes on the job, but first he goes to see his old friend Earl Swagger, and tells him that if he isn’t back in a week, Earl is to come looking for him. When Sam vanishes into the mists and swamps around Thebes, Mississippi, Earl packs his gun, explains to a distraught Junie that duty is duty and a promise is a promise, and sets off for Thebes, Mississippi to track his friend down.
Soon enough, Earl—who approaches Thebes and its sinister prison with the stealth of a good Marine on a recon mission—realizes that something very strange indeed is going on there, that the prison is more than just a place that chills the blood of even the most hardened convict, that in fact the whole town of Thebes is hiding a secret—and it’s a place where people disappear all too easily, particularly inquisitive strangers, for whom burial in the swamps follows torture.
STEPHEN HUNTER – TAPESTRY OF SPIES
Stephen Hunter has chosen the backdrop of the chaotic and cruel Spanish Civil War to weave a classic tale of espionage and counterespionage. Julian Raines was one of the first Englishmen to volunteer for the international brigade in Spain. The British Secret Service suspect that the flamboyant Raines was recruited for the KGB by the Bolsheviks during his student days at Oxford and send Robert Florry, a struggling young writer to Spain after Raines with orders to eliminate him. Florry was an old school chum to Raines and had every reason to hate him. The British are not alone on Raines' trail. The ruthless Communist leader in Barcelona believes that the identity of the double agent conceals a powerful and profitable secret. It is a novel that constantly surprises.
STEPHEN HUNTER – THE SECOND SALADIN
A second chance...
In the windswept sands of the Middle East, Paul Chardy fought side by side with Ulu Beg: one, a charismatic, high-strung CIA covert warrior, the other a ferocious freedom fighter. Then Chardy fell into the hands of the enemy, and Beg was betrayed. Now the two men are about to meet again.
A second gun...
Beg has come over the Mexican border under a hail of bullets--determined to assassinate a leading American political figure and avenge his people's betrayal. The CIA wants Chardy to stop the hit. Chardy wants to save Beg's life.
Between the two men is a tragic past, a failed mission, and a woman who knew them in war--and who knows their secrets now. Around both men is a conspiracy of lies and violence that reaches back to the Cold War. But as Beg moves in for his kill and as Chardy breaks loose from his handlers, a terrible truth begins to emerge: somewhere, someone wants both men to die.
STEPHEN LEATHER – SOFT TARGET
The second book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.
There's only one thing more dangerous than a corrupt cop . . . and that's a corrupt cop with a gun.
When a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and start to rip off drug dealers at gunpoint, undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is given his most dangerous mission so far.
Shepherd is ordered to infiltrate the tight-knit team, to gain their confidence and to ultimately betray them.
Facing men with guns is nothing new for the former SAS trooper, but it's the first time he's had to investigate his own. And the job couldn't have come at a worse time for him.
As Shepherd finds himself in the firing line, he has to decide exactly where his loyalties lie.
STEPHENSON DONALDSON – THE LAST DARK
The bestselling fantasy series from one of the biggest names in the genre comes to an unforgettable conclusion. This is the final volume of the epic Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - one of the keynote works of modern fantasy.
Compelled step by step to actions whose consequences they could neither see nor prevent, Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the magical reality known only as 'the Land'. Now they face their final crisis. Reunited after their separate struggles, they discover in each other their true power - and yet they cannot imagine how to stop the Worm of the World's End from unmaking Time. Nevertheless they must resist the ruin of all things, giving their last strength in the service of the world's continuance.